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Genus: Myrmele Prószyński, 2016 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmele electrica (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034772

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (N.B.: published as lectotpye, but there is no evidence, that the original description was based on more than 1m) - (Wanless, 1978a)

Taxonomic References

Salticus electricus Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 25, pl. 1, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne electrica Simon, 1901a: 500

Myrmarachne electrica Wanless, 1978a: 118, f. 78A-F (m)

Myrmele electrica Prószyński, 2016: 14 (T from Myrmarachne)

References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2016). Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32. doi: 10.37828/em.2016.7.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi: 10.5962/p.28732 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2016-11-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2016
2016-11-09	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2016		Species transferred from Myrmarachne to Myrmele